The Maze

Two friends are inside a big maze and they both are very hungry and want to get out as fast as possible. Says the one friend to the other, "I know for a fact that the end of the maze is north because we entered from the south", says the other, "Yes, but that insight doesn't help us very much. We have to methodologically examine all paths because it might just be that you have to go south first in order to advance to the north."

You think you know that you have an atman inside you, a soul, a true self or how ever else you would like to call this divine connection with God. Similarly, all other parts of you that are headed in the other direction must mean that they are bad, right? Your ego has to be controlled, conquered, overcome. The problem with that approach is that who do you think does the controlling, the conquering, the overcoming? It is the ego, isn't it? Along the Tao the ego melts away. It might still be there but you don't engage with it because your breath is taken away by the situation. Your mind is still - you have reached the "I Am" state at this magic moment.

Everything about you is the 'I', the thoughts, the feelings, the subconscious thought processes, the memories and the stimuli from your environment. Accept the 'I' wholeheartedly and devote your life towards making it whole. Being a Tao traveler means that you converge with a divine Force. Allow yourself to be absorbed by it, allow yourself to be digested by life. Life will offer you the priceless opportunity to be divine here and now just as your soul sibling is offered the same opportunity in her slightly different movie plot. When you experience interferences try to find out what is undermining the divine synchronization process. When you honestly ask, you will be told what is holding you back and you will choose smarter next time around. Compared to experiencing Her energy, all other states are zombie states. You have to be with Her and let the Tao show you the way. Please don't have any preconceived notions of how to proceed. Remember that you still carry a lot of psychological baggage that you have to dispose of. As the maze example showed us, sometimes you have to travel in the opposite direction to advance to your destination. Let the Tao show you the way.